NEW ORLEANS — Now that New Orleans has removed three prominent Confederate statues and a monument heralding white supremacy, what should it do with them? Across the world, cities have wrestled with what statues should be allowed to stand watch over parks and buildings. In 2015, students defaced a statue of him at South Africa’s University of Cape Town, which removed the monument. The Dzerzhinsky monument and other Soviet landmark statues were taken to Muzeon, a park in central Moscow, while authorities were largely undecided about what to do with the busts and statues of Lenin, Dzerzhinsky and other Communist Party functionaries. The Dzerzhinsky statue still stands in an alley at Muzeon while busts and smaller monuments are piled in a heap contained by a link fence.

Source: Washington Post May 21, 2017 13:30 UTC